An angel came to Mochuda at Rahen on another occasion announcing to him the command of God that he should go that same day to Mac Fhiodaig, king of his own region of Kerry Luachra, and administer to him Holy Communion and Confession as he was on the point of death.  Mochuda asked the angel how he could reach Kerry that day from Rahen.  The angel thereupon (for reply) took him up through the air in a fiery chariot until they arrived at the king’s residence.  Mochuda administered Holy Communion and Confession and the king having bestowed generous alms upon him departed hence to glory.  Mochuda returned that same day to Rahen where he found the community singing vespers.

On another occasion Mochuda visited Colman Elo at the latter’s monastery of Lynally and requested Colman to come with him to consecrate for him his cemetery at Rahen, for Colman, assisted by angels, was in the habit of consecrating cemeteries and God gave him the privilege that no one should go to hell who was interred in a grave consecrated by him.  Colman said to him:—­“Return home and on the fifth day from now I shall follow.”  Mochuda returned home, where he remained till the fifth day, when, seeing that Colman had not arrived he came again to the latter.  “Father,” said he, “why have you not kept your promise?” To which Colman replied, “I came and an angel with me that day and consecrated your cemetery.  Return now and you will find it marked (consecrated) on the south side of your own cell.  Lay it out as it is there indicated and think not that its area is too small, because a larger will be consecrated for you later, by the angels, in the southern part of Erin, namely—­in Lismore.”  Mochuda returned and found the cemetery duly marked as Colman had indicated.

About the same time clerics came across Slieve Luachra in the territory of Kerry to the church of Ita, honoured [abbess] of Conall Gabhra.  They had with them a child upon seeing whom Ita wept bitterly.  The clerics demanded why she cried at seeing them.  “Blessed,” she answered, “is the hour in which that youth in your company was born, for no one shall ever go to hell from the cemetery in which he will be buried, but, alas, for me, that I cannot be buried therein.”  The clerics asked what cemetery it was in which he should be buried.  “In Mochuda’s cemetery,” said she, “which though it be as yet unconsecrated will be honoured and famous in times to come.”  This all came to pass, for the youth afterwards became a monk under Mochuda and he is buried in the monastic cemetery of Lismore as Ita had foretold.

A child on another occasion fell off the bridge of Rahen into the river and was drowned.  The body was a day and a night in the water before it was recovered.  Then it was brought to Mochuda who, moved with compassion for the father in his loss of an only son, restored the boy to life.  Moreover he himself fostered the child for a considerable time afterwards and when the youth had grown up, he sent him back to his own country of Delbhna.  Mochuda’s foster son begat sons and daughters and he gave himself and them, as well as his inheritance, to God and Mochuda, and his descendants are to this day servile tenants of the monastery.